Grant Opportunities
Explore our latest grant opportunities designed to support innovative programs, enhance learning, promote health, and engage the community. Check this page frequently for updates and discover resources that can help your organization make a greater impact in Miami-Dade County.
Grant Opportunities
Listed below are upcoming, current or recent grant opportunities. Please check this page frequently for updates.
Promote Citizen Engagement and Leadership
CEOG 2026-08 DIRECT SERVICE PROGRAM ENHANCEMENT
CEOG 2026-09 COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Program Evaluation and Community Research
Thrive by 5 QIS Data Infrastructure & Program Evaluation ITN 2026-03
The Children’s Trust will release a competitive solicitation for foundational data infrastructure, program evaluation, and advanced analytics to externally evaluate the impact of the Thrive by 5 early childhood quality improvement system (QIS) in Miami-Dade County. Thrive by 5 QIS is one of The Trust’s largest investments at $47.5 million annually, with 361 licensed early child care sites and more than 2,500 teachers, serving up to 32,376 young children. It has been recognized nationally as an innovative, multifaceted strategy to improve the quality of early learning for young children. It is a well-developed integrated system of supports at the child care provider, teacher, and child levels, that has a high readiness for program evaluation and complex data modeling and analyses that can tell us more about what combination of components contribute meaningfully to different outcomes.
One or more vendors will be selected to collaborate directly with The Children’s Trust technology and research staff to build a foundational and sustainable QIS data infrastructure within The Trust’s environment to support external evaluation analyses (e.g., MLM ready extracts, reproducible cohorts, and analytic files), as well as operational continuous quality improvement dashboards and monitoring tools (e.g., tracking participation, dosage, implementation indicators, and leading outcome measures). The data preparation and infrastructure phase will include data from multiple system sources, collected across multiple timepoints across a five-year period. Child data are nested in classrooms, which are nested in programs; nested cases will need to be matched across all levels. Ideal vendors will have both technical data modeling and early learning programming/data expertise. Following the foundational data infrastructure phase, vendor(s) will conduct a rigorous program evaluation and evidence generation that analyzes the impact of Thrive by 5 QIS components on the sites, educators, and families within our community. See more about the QIS at https://www.thechildrenstrust.org/about-us/what-we-fund/thrive-by-5/.
Thrive by 5 QIS Timeline
- Release Date: April 2, 2026
- Bidders' Conference and Application Training: April 3, 2026, 10:00 a.m. - noon
- Pre-Application Deadline: April 30, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Deadline to Submit Questions: May 1, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Application Deadline: May 7, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Review Period: May 8-12, 2026
- Debriefing Period: May 13, 2026
- Debriefing Schedule TB5 QIS Evaluation 2026: HERE
- Interview Period: May 18-19, 2026
- Interview Schedule TB5 QIS Evaluation 2026: HERE
- Selection Announcement: May 20, 2026
- Funding Recommendations: HERE
- Appeal Deadline: May 26, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Recommendations to Program Services Committee: June 2, 2026
- Recommendations to Board of Directors: June 15, 2026
- Contract Start Date: July 1, 2026
Request for Proposal (RFP) 2026-04: HealthConnect in Our Schools (HCiOS) Evaluation
The Children’s Trust will release a competitive solicitation for external evaluation services to guide the comprehensive school-based health initiative. HealthConnect in Our Schools currently invests $26 million/year to serve nearly 300 Miami-Dade County schools attended by more than 200,000 students, providing essential nursing, mental health, and social work services. The initiative plays a critical role in supporting student well-being, access to care, and school engagement. Selected vendor(s) will partner closely with The Trust to operationalize key evaluation questions and to collect and analyze mixed methods data to inform the initiative’s implementation, ongoing quality improvement, and overall impact. The proposed evaluation plan is intended to support rigorous analysis, actionable learning, and timely reporting to inform The Trust’s annual planning, school tiering decisions, and program improvements. Applicants may propose to offer one, some, or all of the evaluation plan activities.
HealthConnect in Our Schools Research & Evaluation Service Timeline:
- Release Date: April 2, 2026
- Bidders' Conference and Application Training: April 3, 2026, 10:00 a.m. - noon
- Pre-Application Deadline: April 30, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Deadline to Submit Questions: May 1, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Application Deadline: May 7, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Review Period: May 8-12, 2026
- Debriefing Period: May 13, 2026
- Debriefing Schedule HCiOS Evaluation 2026: HERE
- Interview Period: May 18, 2026
- Interview Schedule HCiOS Evaluation 2026: HERE
- Selection Announcement: May 20, 2026
- Funding Recommendations: HERE
- Appeal Deadline: May 26, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Recommendations to Program Services Committee: June 2, 2026
- Recommendations to Board of Directors: June 15, 2026
- Contract Start Date: July 1, 2026
Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) 2026-05: Economic Impact Evaluation
The Children’s Trust will release a competitive solicitation for economic research and evaluation services to explore the overall economic impact or benefit of having a publicly funded local government organization like The Children’s Trust focused on improving the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County. As The Trust approaches its 25-year anniversary, this effort represents a strategic opportunity to more explicitly examine and articulate the economic value The Trust brings to the community. The selected vendor will function as a thought partner with Trust staff, proposing and carrying out economic analysis and modeling to estimate The Trust’s broader economic contributions. This work will include assessing direct, indirect, induced, and social impact associated with The Trust’s investments. This may involve collection of primary data and use of secondary data. Findings will inform strategic communications, policy discussions, and future planning, helping to clearly convey The Trust’s sustained impact across Miami-Dade County.
Economic Impact Evaluation Timeline:
- Release Date: April 2, 2026
- Bidders' Conference and Application Training: April 3, 2026,10:00 a.m. - noon
- Pre-Application Deadline: April 30, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Deadline to Submit Questions: May 1, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Application Deadline: May 7, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Review Period: May 8-12, 2026
- Debriefing Period: May 13, 2026
- Debriefing Schedule Economic Impact Evaluation 2026: HERE
- Interview Period: May 19, 2026
- Interview Schedule Economic Impact Evaluation 2026: HERE
- Selection Announcement: May 20, 2026
- Funding Recommendations: HERE
- Appeal Deadline: May 26, 2026 by 5 p.m.
- Recommendations to Program Services Committee: June 2, 2026
- Recommendations to Board of Directors: June 15, 2026
- Contract Start Date: July 1, 2026
Community Engagement & Community Outreach Grants
Community Engagement and Outreach grants provide community partners with an opportunity to seek funding for existing programs, advocacy efforts or events that support children and families in Miami-Dade County as well as the mission and values of The Children's Trust.
Operational Solicitations
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